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quote
[ kwoht ]
verb (used with object)
- to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- to repeat words from (a book, author, etc.).
- to use a brief excerpt from:
The composer quotes Beethoven's Fifth in his latest work.
- to cite, offer, or bring forward as evidence or support.
- to enclose (words) within quotation marks.
- Commerce.
- to state (a price).
- to state the current price of.
verb (used without object)
noun
- a quotation.
quote
/ kwəʊt /
verb
- to recite a quotation (from a book, play, poem, etc), esp as a means of illustrating or supporting a statement
- tr to put quotation marks round (a word, phrase, etc)
- stock exchange to state (a current market price) of (a security or commodity)
noun
- often plural an informal word for quotation mark
put it in quotes
interjection
- an expression used parenthetically to indicate that the words that follow it form a quotation
the president said, quote, I shall not run for office in November, unquote
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Other Words From
- quoter noun
- outquote verb (used with object) outquoted outquoting
- pre·quote verb (used with object) prequoted prequoting
- re·quote verb (used with object) requoted requoting
- super·quote verb superquoted superquoting noun
- un·quoted adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quote1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quote1
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Idioms and Phrases
- quote unquote, so called; so to speak; as it were:
If you're a liberal, quote unquote, they're suspicious of you.
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Example Sentences
Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
That quote has been misattributed to him since it first appeared in 1881, when Ben would have been 175 years old.
The quote appears on the bronze plaque the players touch before they take the field for home games.
The quote is apocryphal, but that has not changed its significance for Army football players.
“Telling employees to stick to authorized legal boundaries is a good thing,” he said Wednesday when asked about the quote.
The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.
To quote Mrs. Kaye, 'A Liberal peer is as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, and as ornamental as whitewash.'
Wolff has illustrated this point by a series of experiments on the sunflower, of which we shall quote one.
However and whatever (to quote Amy again), the intentions were that brought the crowd, the Norwood place was comfortably filled.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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